Dialogues between patients and the physician on the several principal diseases in this country : with the physician's advice, including a collection of over two hundred domestic remedies : a work useful to families / by J.F. Daniel Lobstein.

  • Lobstein, J. F. Daniel (Johann Friedrich Daniel), 1777-1840.
Date:
1839
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    one, then it will command adherence in proportion as it is more and more examined into. If the treatment of different diseases mentioned in this work is a good one, (which cannot be denied otherwise than by jealousy or calumny,) let it Jhurisk and progress ; if it be a bad one, let it be frowned down by the just censure of an enlightened community. It is true, it is easier for many to criticise a large work, than to write a small one. I am therefore far from wishing to re- strain the free expression of the opinion of others, should they even be at variance with my own. I will cheerfully abandon my opinion if it be proved erroneous, and I will gratefully re- ceive instruction, when convinced by ample evidence that I am in the wrong. Let the public judge for themselves, because it is to its tribunal I present this work. Many respectable families, whose physician I have had the hon- or to be, as well in Philadelphia as in New- York, have often re- quested of me to publish a work in which I would communicate my treatment of the different diseases, on account of their hav- ing received great benefit from such treatment, and chiefly on ac- count of my not having employed the remedies so common in this country, therefore I am inclined to offer this present work to the public. Many of my patients know by experience that many of their acquaintances have fallen victims to the treat- ment of bleeding and mercury, and that the convalescence of others was very much retarded by the extravagant means a- bove mentioned. Ladies who were very nervous, and tormen- ted with hysteric spasms, have recovered in a short time by my treatment, the former by administering a few simple medicines to them, the latter on account of my dispensing with bleeding them. These facts can be satisfactorily proved. I propose therefore to prove in the present work, that the remedies which I shall lay before the public will be of much more use than the baneful and extravagant bleeding and the treatment of mercury. My intention is not to reject bleeding entirely, for there are cases which indicate the necessity of it; but such cases a phy- sician of discernment can easily distinguish ; such cases how- ever differ widely from every little indisposition and disease,